Author: CAREL (Jacques, sieur de Sainte-Garde):
Title: Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme heroïqve. Premiere partie.
Description: Paris, Chez Clavde Barbin, sur le second Perron de la sainte Chappelle. 1667. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 147 x 78 mms., pp. [xxxii]. 130, handsomely bound in later full green morocco, with gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt to a fleur-de-lys motif, gilt dentelles and turn-ins, marbled end-papers, with French bookseller's catalogue slip pasted to to top margin of front paste-down end-paper, with comment "Exemp. original très-rare, un peut court de marges." NO IMAGES YET FEB 2024 ditto 3 Feg 2025 OCLC: Avec privilege du roi./ Contains only 4 books. In his L'art poétique (chant 3), Boileau ridiculed the author's choice of Childebrand as hero of this poem. Carel changed the title to Charle Martel ou Les Sarrazins chassez de France (1668) and extended the poem to 16 books in a later ed. (1679) under the new title. OCLC locates several copies with imprints dated 1668 and 1669 but only one copy of this 1667 imprint, in Harvard; but there is also a copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

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